{"id":131166,"date":"2021-09-03T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=131166"},"modified":"2021-09-04T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:59:21","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-88-sathiyavathy-maam-board-psir-optional-surfing-defence-forums-online-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-88-sathiyavathy-maam-board-psir-optional-surfing-defence-forums-online-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #88 : Sathiyavathy Ma&#8217;am Board, PSIR Optional, surfing defence forums online Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 24th August<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sathiyavathy Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.Tech, M.Tech &#8211; Aerospace engineering, IIT Bombay<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Following indigenous defence project development, surfing defence forums online<br \/>\n<strong>M.Tech project:<\/strong> Elephant herd optimisation<br \/>\n<strong>Internships:<\/strong> CMU, USA &#8211; Robotics (autonomous navigation of MAVs); DRDO &#8211; Camera calibration, Appreciation letter for publishing research paper; ISRO &#8211; In orbit rendezvous of satellites<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#note3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chairman\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>So you did M Tech too? (Told it was Dual degree)<\/li>\n<li>Tell me difference between Geo stationary and geo synchronous orbits<\/li>\n<li>What is LEO, polar orbit?<\/li>\n<li>Have you followed the problems regarding new Max aircrafts of Boeing?<\/li>\n<li>Is the aircraft grounded right now? What are the specific issues?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What was your project in college?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How can you use Elephant herd optimisation in aerospace?<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not very related to core aerospace, whose idea was it?<br \/>\nForgetting a couple of other questions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>So you follow indigenous defence projects, tell me 2 good and 2 bad projects<\/li>\n<li>Tell me where DRDO is good at and where it is bad, mention products if possible<\/li>\n<li>So Government wants to bring privatisation and reduce HAL, what are your views?<\/li>\n<li>What reforms do you propose in HAL?<\/li>\n<li>Private industry or HAL, what will you choose?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t you think coaching institutes reduce critical thinking ability of students?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me such institutes in Delhi? Who has largest capital?<\/li>\n<li>You took coaching for your interview? Which ones?<\/li>\n<li>With Taliban coming to power in Afghanistan, do you think India has lost its assets in Afghanistan?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think privatisation of space is good?<\/li>\n<li>Can there be cooperation between Indian and US companies?<\/li>\n<li>What are security concerns regarding private companies developing such critical technology?<\/li>\n<li>What are security issues regarding AI in defence?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tell me difference between LWE, terrorism, militancy and insurgency<\/li>\n<li>What will be your approach to deal with these?<\/li>\n<li>What are sleeper cells?<\/li>\n<li>Is it hard to catch such cells? Do they know their ultimate boss?<\/li>\n<li>What are the motivations for such sleeper cells?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think India can achieve $5 trillion goal given it is currently $2.8 trillion?<\/li>\n<li>Can schemes like Aatmanirbhar Bharat really help achieve such target?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman:<\/strong> Thank you<br \/>\nMam: Your interview is over. (Smiling) Thank you.<br \/>\nAround 35 minutes<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For full Interview Preparation Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Affairs For UPSC Exam 2021:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Interview: 24th August Board: Sathiyavathy Ma&#8217;am Background: B.Tech, M.Tech &#8211; Aerospace engineering, IIT Bombay Optional: PSIR Hobbies: Following indigenous defence project development, surfing defence forums online M.Tech project: Elephant herd optimisation Internships: CMU, USA &#8211; Robotics (autonomous navigation of MAVs); DRDO &#8211; Camera calibration, Appreciation letter for publishing research paper; ISRO &#8211; In&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-88-sathiyavathy-maam-board-psir-optional-surfing-defence-forums-online-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #88 : Sathiyavathy Ma&#8217;am Board, PSIR Optional, surfing defence forums online Hobby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":127409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8784,8810,1679,9250,9475],"class_list":["post-131166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-8784","tag-interview_transcript2020","tag-psir","tag-sathiyavathy_board2020","tag-surfing-defence-forums-online","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Interview-Transcript.png?fit=506%2C422&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}